Improvement in gloves



(am At J. SIUEVENS'.

Improvement in Gloves ltd. 122,413.

Patented Jam-2, 1872.

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UNITED STATES ADONIRAM J. STEVENS, OF RUMNEY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

`"iivlPRoviaMElv-r IN cLovEs.

'Snecication forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,413, datedJanuary 2,1872.

To aZZpersons-to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, ADONIRAM J. STEVENS, of Rumney, of the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gloves; and do hereby fdeclare thesame to be fully described in the ufollowing specication and represented in the accompanying drawing, of whichl or doubled upon itself parallel with the linger parts d c, and informing the index and little# finger parts and portions of the back, the remainder of the back, as well as the button-4 hole i'ly, being completedby the piece shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 3 is provided with a thumbhole, j', to which the piece exhibited in Fig. 5 is to be sewed for formation of the thumb, all the parts being sewed together at their edges in contact, and with Welts y between them, in the usual way of connecting the parts of a glove. By this method ot' constructing the glove the button-hole iiy and its slit or opening become arranged at the back of the -glove or outer edge of the Wrist, and the palm is clear of any slit at the wrist. In other words, the wrist-slit and its covering-Ey become arranged so as to be directly over the lower joint or carpal end of the ulna of the arm when the glove is upon the hand of a'person. Furthermore, the whole glove is constructed of three pieces only, except the usual Welts and Wristband, whereby there is effected not only a great saving' in stitching, but an arrangement of the button-hole fly and the buttons L h not only very favorable for bnttonin g the iiy, but of advantage in dispensing with the buttontiy and slit, or, as usually arranged, either in. the middle of the the wrist.

I am aware of the modes of constructing' a glove as described and shown in the United States patent No. 113,695, and in the British patentsv Nos. 2,794 of l858and 774 of 1860, in none of which is the back piece cnt, formed, or provided with the wrist-slit fly, as' is theback piece of my glove, as shownin Fig. 4. In neither ofthe gloves as described in such patents do we find the wrist-slit arranged so as to be immediately at or over the ulna joint when the glove is in wear. Thus there are very important differences between my construction of glove and either of the others, as referred to.

Iv make no claim to anything or things, combinations, constructions, or arrangements of parts shownin either of the said patents; but

I claim as my invention- The improvedV glove as having its back piece (shown in Fig. 4) formed with the Wrist-slit lily arranged uponit, as set forth, and combined with the palm and finger-piece, formed as shown'in Fig. 3, whereby the wristslit and the iiy become arranged so as to be at or over the carpal end of the ulna of the arm when the glove may be in wear upon the hand of a person.

ADONIRAM J. STEVENS.

Witnesses: Y

E. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW. (38) palm or the back parts ofl 

